Users' Guide: Clinical Practice Guideline
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Are the results valid?
What are the recommendations?
Will the results help me in patient care?

Are the results valid?

Were all important options and outcomes specified?
Was an explicit and sensible process used to identify, select and combine the evidence?
Was an explicit and sensible process used to consider the relative value of different outcomes?
Were important recent developments included?
Has the guideline had peer review and testing?

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What are the recommendations?

Are practical, important recommendations made?
How strong are the recommendations?
Could the uncertainty in the evidence or values change the guideline's recommendations?

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Will the results help me in patient care?

Is the objective of the guideline consistent with mine?
Are the recommendations applicable to my patients?

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